Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.